What happens on a round smooth stone is hands, fingers of old voices, dust, bones, sunlight falling in May, the terrible heel December has, talents of witches in the nightcry and oblivion of dark winds. What happens on around smooth bone is loam-eat and rushing waters and effluvium decay spreads and a bite of blue-gray hardpan tougher than prom- ises. When the hands and the earth are trussed, what melts away begins.